Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Why Are These Books Banned? viii
Reading Log xvii
1 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie 2
2 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 6
3 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 10
4 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 14
5 Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher 18
6 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 22
7 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel 26
8 Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice Marianne Celano Marietta Collins Ann Hazzard, illustrated Jennifer Zivoin 30
9 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 34
10 The Kingdom of Little Wounds Susann Cokal 38
11 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 42
12 Whale Talk Chris Crutcher 46
13 This Book Is Gay Juno Dawson, illustrated Spike Gerrell 50
14 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich 54
15 Lawn Boy Jonathan Evison 58
16 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 62
17 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 66
18 Melissa Alex Gino 70
19 Looking for Alaska John Green 74
20 Prince & Knight Daniel Haack, illustrated Stevie Lewis 78
21 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon 82
22 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine, edited Caitlin Roper Ilena Silverman Jake Silverstein 86
23 I Am Jazz Jessica Herthel Jazz Jennings, illustrated Shelagh McNicholas 90
24 Crank Ellen Hopkins 94
25 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 98
26 The Color of Earth Kim Dong Hwa 102
27 All Boys Aren't Blue George M. Johnson 106
28 Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Susan Kuklin 110
29 Two Boys Kissing David Levithan 114
30 Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers 118
31 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 122
32 Out of Darkness Ashley Hope Pérez 126
33 The Golden Compass Philip Pullman 130
34 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds Ibram X. Kendi 134
35 All American Boys Jason Reynolds Brendan Kiely 138
36 And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson Peter Parnell, illustrated Henry Cole 142
37 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowel 146
38 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi 150
39 What My Mother Doesn't Know Sonya Sones 154
40 Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, edited Amy Sonnie 158
41 Maus: A Survivor's Tale Art Spiegelman 162
42 This One Summer Mariko Tamaki, illustrated Jillian Tamaki 166
43 Drama Raina Telgemeier 170
44 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 174
45 Habibi Craig Thompson 178
46 A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Jill Twiss, illustrated EG Keller 182
47 The Color Purple Alice Walker 186
48 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 190
49 So Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins 194
50 Nasreen's Secret School Jeanette Winter 198
51 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley Malcolm X Alex Haley 202
52 Front Desk Kelly Yang 206
Appendix: 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 211
About the American Library Association 217
